Editing Meeting Notes 2022 04 12 (section)

== Discussion Item 1 ==
Emeline - embroidery machine - under discussion lately, looked into it. IS it good machine for NB to have? Which are in range we can ensure continue working?
we have juki mechanic who fixes machines over and over. No amount of telling people to get training is stopping the machines from getting broken. Embroidery would be higher maintenance. Domestic machine wasn't much used, difficult to set up, limited capabilities. etc. A consumer/hobbyist+ range of machines is $5,000. $2000 older machines aren't serviced in the US online only. It is fairly easy to find parts and it is somewhat user friendly. If it is misused it will break quickly and investment in fixes. More garments like hats... Industrial embroidery machines have support in bay but are difficult to fix. We could learn but they are different range pf tuning precision, $10K+ I did find a couple industrials around $5k second hand. They have features to prevent breaking after getting. Do we want to invest given the maintenance cost and how people treated sewing room which is not excellent? Even sewing machine maintainers don't touch embroidery machines because of amount of precision they have to have. IS that something we want to get? Looked into other spaces and what they used, lots of machines requires special training.  Would like to have an embroidery machine

LX- sounds like it is more importaint than the laser cutter, we have done this before. Would it be easier if the people willing to get this going would sign up to train people.  
Emiline: We have done this already with the knitting machine 

LX- Pattern, like events, need to establish how many people it takes to keep the machine maintained

EM- People have brought their sewing machines for us to show them out to use them 

LX- I'll sign up for embroidery and stuff.

EM- its a differenc investment

LX- First build a gor 

Dave - It is a pattern question to what extent do we want to enforce excellence like locking things against stealing, unsupervised people, etc. and we're all over the place. We could have a discussion about it and be in a better spot. We could RFID and password protect the sewing machines and logs who uses it for accountability or keys or access controls to certain rooms in the space so you get access to sewing rooms by being trained on them. Pushback against this kind of thing was based on not being big problem or throw money at it.

Emeline - Also the cost of maintenance. Each generation of people involved in sewing machines has lost knowledge transferring hands. It is hard to keep track. Best implementation might be to have ability to have maintenance community that knows each other and can ask questions. Most people who come show up once to ask for us to fix machines or how to make straight lines and then that's it. How many people have ongoing deep interests to invest beyond that? There aren't so many people interested until you reach out for people who use it as a job for their craft. People who did this like Eli did this professionally and had vested interest in maintaining it. Do we need different levels of access? If you break machine 3rd time we know how and have 10 replacement parts once we have the right mechanic skills. It raises questions about how we invest and pay for convenient use.

Dave - One thing we have done in the past for fundraising is we have said if people do a fundraiser and raise half Noisebridge will match and buy the thing. Maybe one thing is to find champions and owners of things that we want to buy.

Emeline - one makerspace asked about Industrial embroidery machines said they had a certain number of hours per machine per week like buying time.

Dave - If there is ongoing cost, there's a case for putting in money to use it like laser since it uses lots of power and bulb has finite life so you put in $5-10 per hour when you use it.

Emeline - people have been helpful about money for maintenance.

Dave - Maybe we small C consensus a donation box for sewing?

Emeline - we do but we don't have the key.

Dave - It needs separate accounting to stay in sewing fund.

LX - There should be a box for donations that tells you how much Noisebridge costs per day. It calculates a fair donation amount.

Dave - We should avoid putting any new work on the treasury.

EHR - Would come in after meeting to work on the project earmarking accounts list.

Dave - I wan to put a tagalong discussion item with sewing. A small poll for people: How do people feel about 

LX - VR cart has had locked down GPU PC and Vive safe for long time. Fine with lcoked machine maintainer groups.

? - I'm unsure about locking rooms as sometimes I just want to hang out in the sewing room even if I don't need to operate the machines. I haven't seen the signs on the machines yet.

Dave - What if the sign is part of the access control system and reading it to get into the room is like a mental TOS.

? - I think its early to jump to it.

Dave - access control for machines?

? - fine with that.

EHR - For things we're concerned about walking away like power drills, we could low tech etch them with PROPERTY OF NOISEBRIDGE PLEASE RETURN. If there's pushback for more access controlled tool library containers, more people could get onboard with that.

Alex - When I see the 10 drills for sale on mission street I assume they're all ours.

Ronald - Some people might borrow them without realizing they aren't to be removed from the space.

Dave - We could put cable attached to brick or something. It needs to have name and contact for the place.

Noel - We could also do inventory control like airtags or RFID we could know when they got out. Track them through the door.

Loren - we could attach airtags with epoxy.

EHR: https://donate.noisebridge.net/ has an option to earmark donation to a specific project but there is currently only "General Fund". We could expand this list here:
https://github.com/noisebridge/python-nb-donate/search?q=%22General+Fund%22


LX - I suggest we reup our object tagging tracker system and add bulky versions for steal prone things and RFID tags so it is informational internally as well.

Ronald - White marker saying prop noisebridge to start.

Noel - what works wil lbe a combination.